treason child of aaron burr. and it was invoked various times. people don t know. it is bipartisan. eisenhower did it for the mccarthy hearings. president clinton did it 14 times. president bush, seven times. president obama, once or twice. if turn president s lawyer and he was asking you, i want to invoke executive privilege, not to prevent him from testifying but about the personal conversations. now you know where it comes from. could he invoke it in this sense? that s a narrow finding of definition. not everything that comes out of president s mouth would be covered by executive privilege bauflt conversation about someone like a job interview, how would you like to be the fbi director, what do you think we should do about x, y or z subject, in the deliberative process of a president making